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...third quarter: I just head that DiMaggio has 74 yards on the day. He broke the streak! (Someone let me know if I should stop with this joke...
...sound strangely familiar, then you don’t listen to rock music. Parody’s the point.And Adams does it ridiculously well, getting nearly everyone right. There’s the Edge-like guitar of “So Alive”; Adams underscores the joke by imitating Bono’s legato quaver. The “Wish You Were Here” intro harkens back to “Jessie’s Girl,” and “Burning Photographs” references the work of another famous Springsteen. Thin Lizzy quotes abound...
...Once seated comfortably in the red-cushioned barber's chair, even the most powerful member of the elite becomes just another guy in need of grooming. And it's a common-man experience whose relaxed intimacy most of them seem to relish. "They come in and gossip and joke around," says the 61-year-old Rodr?guez, as he deftly moves a straight blade around the ears of a lesser-known patron. "The politicians want to know what other people say about them, and what they say about others...
...that oversees development projects. During a debate in October, the two candidates criticized the current Boston government for rubber-stamping Harvard’s plans without securing anything in return. “We’ve gotten no community benefits written in stone, it’s a joke,” Glennon said. “People are being driven out by a process that doesn’t respect their concerns.” Glennon said his record prosecuting drug dealers has prepared him to take on City Hall bureaucrats. He favors creating a new planning board...
...farm bill that will continue our basic farm policies, which means it will keep funneling money to farmers and pseudo farmers through a bewildering array of loans, price supports, subsidized insurance, disaster aid and money-for-nothing handouts that arrive when times are tough--or not tough. "What a joke," grumbles Congressman Ron Kind, a Wisconsin Democrat who led a failed bipartisan reform effort in the House. "You're eligible as long as you're breathing." Actually, that's not quite true. Since the vast majority of the cash goes to five row crops--corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice...